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...high dollar, pay off in the low dollar." Says he: "Then there's the $200-or 300-a-year income-tax deduction you can take for interest payments. If we don't need anything after we get out of debt, we'll go out and invent something...
...general words of advice to the cast might be in order. First, try to round out your role, be it large or small. That a playwright has written only a cardboard character into his lines is no excuse; it is then up to the director or the actor to invent something. This is especially true of small parts, on which the dramatist is likely to have spent little pains. Jacquelyn Zollo's Miss Jay is a good example; she was on stage only briefly and had but a handful of lines, yet achieved warmth and depth. I felt...
...false confession fabricated in 1937 by the NKVD concerning sabotage, espionage and diversion in a terroristic center in Leningrad. With unbelievable cynicism Zakovsky told about the vile mechanism for the crafty creation of fabricated 'anti-Soviet plots.' . . . 'You yourself [he told Rosenblum] will not need to invent anything. The NKVD will prepare for you a ready outline for every branch of the center; you will have to study it carefully and to remember all questions and answers which the court might ask . . . Your future will depend on how the trial goes and on its results...
...assertive manner that conflicts with his shy appearance. "You might as well do things that amuse you. It takes me a long time to write a piece of music-anywhere from months to years-and simple ideas would bore me before I got through. Anyway, I want to invent something I haven't heard before...
...case of the New England manufacturer who booted his incompetent production manager upstairs to "vice president in charge of personnel," where subordinates handled the job he was supposed to do. Many a corporate head creates positions to make work for friends, said A.I.M., and some invent titles merely to surround themselves with yesmen. Asks A.I.M.: "How can management, in all fairness, complain at labor featherbedding when managements are so widely guilty of the same practice? In management featherbedding. the damage is greater, the cost is larger and the bad example is more obvious...